Health Care & Hospital Law
Sep. 1, 2021
Body brokers unlawfully profit off of vulnerable members of society
Douglas A. Rochen
Partner
Abir, Cohen, Treyzon & Salo LLP
Personal injury
16001 Ventura Blvd, Suite #200
Encino , CA 91436
Fax: (310) 407-7888
Email: drochen@actslaw.com
California Western School of Law
Douglas leads the firm's catastrophic injury practice group, which includes the areas of trucking accidents, wrongful death, product liability, sexual abuse, traumatic brain injury, paralysis, catastrophic orthopedic loss, amputation, mass tort disaster, sensory loss, civil rights, premises liability, and pharmaceutical litigation.
Earlier this year, an emerging and troubling societal problem got the Hollywood treatment. In the movie "Body Brokers," a person addicted to drugs is brought to Los Angeles for treatment. He soon learns the facility treating him does not exist to rehabilitate people. Instead, it provides cover for a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme where addicted people recruit other addicted people to seek treatment at the facility.
While the crime thrille...
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